July 3, 2008
"Siberian jail is champion in fight against TB"
An article published in Reuters highlights the efforts of BWH-physician Ed Nardell and Partners In Health to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis in the prisons of Tomsk, Russia.
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July 1, 2008
"Health and Human Rights: An International Journal"
The Division's Dr. Paul Farmer is editor of a new on-line health and human rights journal produced by the FXB Center
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June 6, 2008
"Global Health Equity Residents Celebrate Graduation"
BWH Bulletin
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June 2, 2008
"She Battles Disease, Poverty in Developing Countries"
This Boston Globe article features an interview with DSMHI faculty member Dr. Joia Mukherjee about her career in global health
By: Billy Baker
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May 11, 2008
"Keeping New Mothers Alive"
Dr. Paul Farmer and Partners In Health's Executive Director Ophelia Dahl wrote an OpEd piece about maternal mortality for the Washington Post
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May 9, 2008
"Haiti Food Crisis"
Dr. Evan Lyon, a DSMHI faculty member, was interviewed on the radio show "Here and Now" on NPR about the rising food prices in Haiti
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May 5, 2008
"Silent Tsunami: Global Food Crisis"
DSMHI faculty member Dr. Joia Mukherjee was a guest speaker on NPR's On Point; the converation was focused on the results and consequences of rising food prices around the globe
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May 5, 2008
"Feeding Haiti"
A Boston Globe OpEd article written by Dr. Joia Mukherjee and Donna Barry about the food crisis in Haiti
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May 4, 2008
"Dr. Farmer's Remedy"
Drs. Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and David Walton are featured in this 60 Minutes piece about the work of Partners In Health in Haiti and around the globe
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April 13, 2008
"In Rwanda, Visionary Doctor is Moving Mountains Again"
Dr. Paul Farmer is featured in this Boston Globe article about Partners In Health in Rwanda
By Bella English
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April 10, 2008
"Blog from the Mountains of Northern Rwanda"
Dr. Paul Farmer visited King Faisal Hospital in Rwanda to see the progress that Team Heart has made and wrote a blog about his experience. The DSMHI's Dr. Gene Bukhman is one of the leaders of this team that will perform heart surgery on several patients in Rwanda
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April 3, 2008
"Louise Ivers - A Higher Purpose"
As part of an ongoing effort to document Harvard University's involvement in Global Health, The Harvard Gazette published this piece on Dr. Louise Ivers and her work in Haiti
By Alvin Powell
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March 28, 2008
"Annual Meeting Explores Cooperation, Competition in Global Science Efforts"
A follow-up article on the Global Health Challenges Panel Discussion organized during the Americal Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting
By Becky Ham
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March 26, 2008
"Dorchester Foot Soldiers Fight HIV with House Calls"
Jason Villarreal and Dr. Heidi Behforouz are featured in this Baystate Banner article about the PACT Program
By Mai-Anh Hoang
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March 3, 2008
"Surgery and Global Health: A View from Beyond the OR"
An article written by Drs. Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer concerning the lack of surgical services in resource-poor settings that was published in the World Journal of Surgery
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February 25, 2008
"Lilly and Partners in Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital Team Up to Fight MDR-TB in Former Soviet Republics"
The Eli Lilly and Company Foundation provides $4 million to underwrite PIH/BWH education and training programs in countries that are part of the new World Health Organization Report on drug resistant tuberculosis.
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February 22, 2008
"Universitites Have a Key Role in Global Access to Medicines"
A commenary written by Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Dr. Rahul Rajkumar and Rajesh Panjabi that was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
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February 18, 2008
"Doctor Urges Creation of 'Science of Healthcare Delivery'"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is featured in an article in Wired Science about the creation of a new science: Global Health Delivery
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February 14, 2008
"Building Capacity for Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment: Health Systems Strengthening in Lesotho"
An article about the Lesotho Project that was featured in the MIT Journal, Innovations. Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee and several other DSMHI faculty members contributed to this article
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February 11, 2008
"Healthcare Delivery and Implementation Science: An Interview with Prof Jim Yong Kim"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is interviewed for an article in the Singapore Medical Association News about Global Health Delivery
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February 1, 2008
"Human Rights, Community-Based Health Care and Child Survival"
A commentary by Drs. Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim for the latest edition of UNICEF's flagship publication, The State of the World's Children 2008
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January 22, 2008
"BWH-Led Tuberculosis Research Project Receives $14 Million NIH Grant"
DSMHI faculty receive major NIH grant to study drug resistant tuberculosis
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January 18, 2008
"The Impact of PACT"
BWH Bulletin
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January 4, 2008
"A Team with Heart"
Dr. Gene Bukhman (a DSMHI physician), in conjunction with PIH, is helping to lead a team of BWH physicians and nurses that are traveling to Rwanda to perform heart surgery on 10 to 15 patients suffering from rheumatic heart disease
BWH Bulletin
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December 4, 2007
"The Future of Global Health"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim discusses the future of global health in Sargent College's ninth annual Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture at Boston University.
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December 6, 2007
"Two Wheels Take Hope to AIDS Patients"
A London Times article that features DSMHI's Dr. Jen Furin about the charity Riders for Health in Lesotho
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November 19, 2007
"Bridging the Delivery Gap to Global Health"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim speaks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management as part of the Dean's Innovative Leader Series
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November 15, 2007
"Global Health Equity"
Dr. Paul Farmer speaks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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October 8, 2007
Dr. Howard Hiatt is awarded the Institute of Medicine's 2007 Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the advancement of health care services
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September 27, 2007
"Stregnthening Health Systems"
Jim Yong Kim speaks at The Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York
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July 24, 2007
"Drug Resistant TB in Russia"
A video featuring DSMHI's Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee speaking at an event co-sponsored by the Global Health Initiative and the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
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July 23, 2007
"Do What You Love"
An article in the summer issue of Augustana Magazine about David Walton; a recent GHE Residency Graduate and now a DSMHI faculty member
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July 19, 2007
"In Africa, the Road to Aid is in the Sky"
DSMHI's Dr. Jen Furin is quoted in this Baltimore Sun article about cessna planes bringing supplies, drugs, and physicians to Lesotho
By Scott Calvert
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July 17, 2007
"Health, Equity and Political Economy: A Conversation with Paul Farmer"
Paul Farmer is interviewed for an article that appears in the July/August 2007 issue of Health Affairs about the state of global health and the interplay between health, equity and political economy
By Fitzhugh Mullan
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July 5, 2007
"Basotho Battle Death in the Mountains"
An article in Mail & Guardian (a South African newspaper) about the lifesaving work being lead by DSMHI's Dr. Jennifer Furin in the remote regions of the African nation of Lesotho
By Thijs van der Post
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July 2007
"Saving Malawi's Children"
Jim Yong Kim speaks with Madonna in this Vanity Fair article about AIDS in Africa
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June 13, 2007
"CDC Sends Nurses Home with Some TB Patients"
DSMHI faculty member Edward Nardell is interviewed about domestic TB issues on NPR's All Things Considered
By Patricia Neighmond
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June 8, 2007
Alumni Day Symposium - Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Jim Kim, Sonya Shin, and David Walton were all speakers at Harvard Medical School's Alumni Day Symposium
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June 8, 2007
"Inagural Class of Global Health Equity Residency Graduates"
BWH Bulletin
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June 8, 2007
"Global Health Residency Fetes First Grads"
HMS Focus
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June 4, 2007
"Specialists say TB case a sign of things to come"
Boston Globe article about drug-resistant tuberculosis featuring DSMHI doctors Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer
By John Donnelly
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June 4, 2007
"Students called to global service"
Boston Globe article about the Global Health Equity Residency
By John Donnelly
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June 3, 2007
"I've seen more death than anyone should"
GHE Residency graduate David Walton is featured in this Chicago Tribune article
By Gary Marx
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June 1, 2007
DSMHI faculty member Salmaan Keshajeev is interviewed on KQED in San Francisco about Tuberculosis and Drug Resistance
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March 26, 2007
"With local impetus, drug firm takes on TB - Boston doctors' call spurs massive pledge"
Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer are featured in this Page 1 story
By John Donnelly
The Boston Globe
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March 23, 2007
"Tuberculosis Numbers Level Off, but Threat Remains"
DSMHI physician Salmaan Keshavjee is quoted in this article
ABC News Medical Unit
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March 14, 2007
The Soros Open Society Institute has partnered with DSMHI and other global health leaders to battle drug-resistant TB and HIV in poor countries.
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Listen to an interview with Jim Yong Kim speaking about the initiative here.
An audio playback of the March 14 press conference is also available. To access the playback, call 888-203-1112 (or 719-457-0820 outside of the U.S. and Canada) and enter passcode 5402035.
December 1, 2006
"WHO and UNAIDS Set Controversial Course for HIV Testing"
Jim Yong Kim is featured in this article, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Vol. 6; No. 12: P. 760 December 2006
By Emily Bass
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November 30, 2006
"The Possible Dream"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is profiled in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.
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November 30, 2006
"Ahead of World AIDS Day, renewed calls for new strategies to stop pandemic"
Marking World AIDS Day, DSMHI Chief Jim Yong Kim comments on global HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts in USA Today.
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November 2006
"The Healer"
Jim Yong Kim is featured on the cover of Brown Alumni Magazine.
By Charlotte Bruce Harvey
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November 2006
"Turning the Tide with Global Medicine"
By Karen Lo, The Next Generation
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November 10, 2006
"DSMHI & PIH Launch New Project Site in Mountains of Lesotho"
By Rachel Knott, DSMHI Staff
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November 6, 2006
"Health Advocate Makes Call to Action"
By Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe
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November 5, 2006
"Challenging Orthodoxies in Health and Human Rights"
Paul Farmer delivered the keynote address at the American Public Health Association's 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Boston, MA
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October 26, 2006
"Farmer shows students they can help"
Paul Farmer talked with Tracy Kidder at Cambridge Rindge & Latin high school in Cambridge, MA.
By Alvin Powell, Harvard News Office
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October 24, 2006
"Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine"
Written by Drs. Paul Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac and Salmaan Keshavjee. Published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journal.
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October 24, 2006
Dr. Farmer spoke with Kaiser Family Foundation vice president Jackie Judd about his article, "Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine," recently published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journal.
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October 12, 2006
"Clinton visits site in Rwanda, praises PIH at XVI International AIDS Conference"
By Rachel Knott, DSMHI Staff
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October 12, 2006
"Sonya Shin, MD: Mother, Medical Scholar"
Dr. Sonya Shin has been awarded the Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship for Scholars in Medicine
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September 20, 2006
"Global Health: Condition Critical: The Health Care Infrastructure Chasm"
Dr. Paul Farmer participated in the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.
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September 7, 2006
"The Power of Philanthropy"
by Bethany McLean, Fortune magazine
A look at how the former President has borrowed from the business world to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa and other scourges, featuring Dr. Paul Farmer and the work of Partners In Health.
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September 1, 2006
"Nicholas Appointed to Center for Nursing Excellence, DSMHI"
BWH Bulletin
Partrice Nicholas, DNSc, MPH, APRN-BC has been appointed Director of Global Health and Academic Partnerships in the Center for Nursing Excellence.
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August 29, 2006
"Clinton Makes Up for Lost Time in Battling AIDS"
by Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times
Featuring Drs. Howard Hiatt and Paul Farmer
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August 25, 2006
"Hiatt Inducted into Royal College of Physicians"
BWH Bulletin
Howard Hiatt, MD, has been inducted into the Royal College of Physicians, the oldest medical institution in England.
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August 21, 2006
From the XVI International AIDS Conference
"Wanted in AIDS Fight: 4 Million More Workers"
by Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe
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August 17, 2006
From the XVI International AIDS Conference
Drs. Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer speak to NPR's Here and Now about the XVI International AIDS Conference and how to increase access to treatment for AIDS patients around the world.
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August 17, 2006
From the XVI International AIDS Conference
"AIDS in 2006 - Moving toward One World, One Hope?"
by Drs. Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer, The New England Journal of Medicine
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August 16, 2006
From the XVI International AIDS Conference
"Food a Basic Need in HIV Fight, UN Agency Says"
By Natalie Armstrong for Reuters
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August 13, 2006
From the XVI International AIDS Conference
"Status Conscious: Why the Lesotho government wants everyone to know whether they have HIV"
By Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD
Ottawa Citizen
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August 13, 2006
From the XVI International AIDS Conference
"AIDS Steals"
by Kate Jaimet
Global Health Equity Resident David Walton, MD, is profiled in the Ottawa Citizen.
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August 10, 2006
Dr. Jim Yong Kim has been named head of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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August 5, 2006
"Unexpected Political Immunity to AIDS"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim's review of Alex de Wall's new book, AIDS and Power, has been published in The Lancet.
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July 21, 2006
Dr. Jim Yong Kim has received Brigham and Women's Hospital's Hippocrates Society's 2006 Humanitarian Award.
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July 28, 2006
Zanmi Lasante is profiled in Science magazine's special section on HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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July 1, 2006
"Careers in Medicine: Clinical Service in Developing Countries"
by Lester Leung
Dr. Louise Ivers is profiled in Next Generation: An Introduction to Careers in Medicine.
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June 8, 2006
Video now available: Amartya Sen, PhD, Nobel Laureate and Lamont University Professor at Harvard, delivered the Victor Dzau Lecture in Global Health Equity as part of BWH's Medical Grand Rounds on April 14, 2006. Watch his talk, entitled "Global Health and Practical Reason," below. Requires Windows Media Player.
Part I: Introductions Drs. Jim Yong Kim, Victor Dzau and Howard Hiatt
Part II: Global Health and Practical Reason Prof. Amartya Sen
June 5, 2006
"CNN Health Minute: Future of AIDS"
Much has changed since the early days of AIDS, but prevention is the key. Dr. Jim Yong Kim speaks with CNN's Judy Fortin.
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June 2, 2006
"PBS Frontline Presents: The Age of AIDS"
Drs. Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer are featured alongside a number of other experts in this program, which chronicles the spread of HIV/AIDS through interviews with researchers, leaders, activists, and patients.
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June 2, 2006
"Physicians Set Up AIDS Testing, Treatment in Lesotho"
BWH Bulletin
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May 29, 2006
"Health As A Birthright: Dr. Paul Farmer improves treatment among the poor in blighted regions"
By Catherine Arnst, Business Week
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May 18, 2006
"Africa's Medicine Man"
Paul Farmer is profiled in The Independent's special "Red" edition.
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May 12, 2006
"Providing Hope for People Affected by AIDS"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim has written an article published in Global Future Magazine.
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May 12, 2006
"Kim Named Among Time's 100 Most Influential People"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is featured in the BWH Bulletin.
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May 10, 2006
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is interviewed for a show about the WHO's new guidelines for treating MDR TB on the BBC's radio program The World.
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May 8, 2006
"Jim Yong Kim: Treating the 'Untreatable'"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim has been named as one of TIME Magazine's top 100 most influential people.
Read the Article by Tracy Kidder
May 5, 2006
"3 by 5 and beyond: Expanding the reach of HIV treatment"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is interviewed by HMI World magazine.
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May 2, 2006
"Farmer: Aiding poor must transcend boundaries"
The Harvard Gazette covers Dr. Paul Farmer delivering the George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics.
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April 26, 2006
"Local Health is Global Health: Bad Bugs Can't Read Maps"
Drs. Jim Yong Kim, Paul Farmer and Martin Hirsch lecture on global health at Harvard Medical School's Longwood Seminar.
Watch Part I (Intro/Dr. Hirsch)
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Watch Part III (Q&A Session; Dr. Farmer, moderator)
March 7, 2006
"Rethinking Health and Human Rights in the Age of Universal Access to HIV Treatment, Care and Prevention"
Dr. Jim Yong Kim delivers the Dean's Distinguished Lecture at the Harvard School of Public Health
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February 16, 2006
Dr. Paul Farmer is the recipient of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' Jimmy and Rosalynd Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind
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February 7, 2006
Dr. Paul Farmer spoke with Steve Inskeep on NPR's Morning Edition about the impact of Haiti's political violence on the provision of health care.
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February 1, 2006
Dr. Jennifer Furin is interviewed on HealthCast, part of the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation's global health-focused website, KaiserNetwork.org.
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December 26, 2005
"Virtual Medicine"
Dr. Hamish Fraser is profiled in the technology magazine Red Herring
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December 23, 2005
"Scaling Up Treatment: Why We Can't Wait"
by Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., and Charlie Gilks, D.Phil., F.R.C.P.
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine
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December 12, 2005
"Author's $1.5 million gift sustains residency and honors Dr. Howard Hiatt"
From BWH Giving
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November 23, 2005
"How to Turn the Corner on AIDS"
By Jim Yong Kim, an op-ed in The Washington Post
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November 21, 2005
Rx for Survival
Paul Farmer and Jim Kim's work in Peru is featured in this PBS special.
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November 3, 2005
"More Heroes and What must we learn from the war against AIDS"
Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer are featured at the TIME Magazine Global Health Summit
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November 1, 2005
"Champion of the Poor"
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Paul Farmer is featured in TIME Magazine's 2005 Global Health Issue.
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October 31, 2005
Drs. Paul Farmer & Jim Yong Kim named as two of "America's 25 Best Leaders"
By Michael Satchell, US News & World Report
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October 28, 2005
"Global Health Residency Enjoys a Successful First Year"
by Rachel Knott, DSMHI Staff
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September 26, 2005
"Success in Haiti - One Program at a Time"
"Paul Farmer's Partners in Health organization has won the world's largest humanitarian award."
By Jennifer Moeller, The Christian Science Monitor
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September 1, 2005
Pam Das interviews Dr. Jim Yong Kim in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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August 25, 2005
The PACT Project is featured in
"Local AIDS Agency Looks to Bridge Healthcare Gap"
By Talia Whyte, The Boston People's Voice
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July 5, 2005
"Healing the World by Curing the Poor: A Conversation With Paul Farmer, MD"
By Claudia Dreifus, The New York Times
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June 8, 2005
"Health Experts Fear Possible Tuberculosis Resurgence"
Featuring an interview with DSHMI Physician Ed Nardell, MD
By Emily Kagan, ABC News
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May 23, 2005
Paul Farmer gave the commencement speech to the graduating class of 2005 at Boston College.
Watch the Video (Requires RealPlayer) | Read a Boston Globe Article About the Speech
April 15, 2005
Heidi Behforouz, MD and Serena Koenig, MD talk on the Paul Sullivan Show, WBZ Radio 1030 AM
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April 11, 2005
Paul Farmer, MD joins former President Bill Clinton to announce new HIV/AIDS Treatment Initiative in Rwanda
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February 4, 2005
Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers delivers the inaugural Dzau Lecture in Global Health
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December 25, 2004
"Thinking Globally, Acting Locally": The PACT Project is the subject of a Boston Globe article by Bella English
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November 18, 2004
The PACT Project has moved to Codman Square
622 Washington St., Dorchester
(617) 474-8500
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October 21, 2004
The PACT Project is the subject of "Touched by an 'Angel'"
By Adrian Walker, The Boston Globe
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May 29, 2004
"Too much conventional international health education shrinks from acknowledging the social roots of grotesque inequalities."
"Education and Practice: Global Health Equity" by Dr. Paul Farmer is published in The Lancet
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June 2004
"A Global Attack on TB: The Eli Lilly & Company Foundation Funds Research and Training"
Published in BWH Magazine
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June 10, 2004
Paul Farmer delivered the address at the
2004 Harvard School of Public Health commencement
Listen to Webcast (requires RealPlayer)
July 13, 2004
Jim Yong Kim delivered the address "Scaling Up Access to Care in Resource Constrained Settings - What is Needed?"
at the XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
Link to webcast (Dr. Kim's address begins at 1h21m)
April 12, 2004
Jim Yong Kim is featured on the UN World Chronicle talk show
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April 2004
Taking the Lead in Tackling HIV
Jim Yong Kim is featured in Asia Pacific Development Magazine
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January 24, 2004
"Scaling up treatment for HIV/AIDS: lessons learned from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis"
Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD is the author of this article in The Lancet
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December 29, 2003
"A New Assault on AIDS: Jim Yong Kim"
Published in Newsweek International (Atlantic Edition)
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October 2003
"Two BWH Physicians Awarded Genius Grants by the MacArthur Foundation"
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Autumn 2003
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer,
A Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder is now available
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May 2002
AIDS and TB: How should care be delivered?
Jim Yong Kim is interviewed for the HMI World Newsletter.
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January 2001
A Doctor of Social Justice
Satya Magazine Interviews Jim Yong Kim
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